I think personal automation is what will finally make Shortcuts useful. Like you, I've got a ton of flows that could benefit, but without triggers a lot of the shortcuts were just saving me a few button presses. To me, that's just not worth cluttering the Shortcuts UI and having one more thing to maintain.
As you point out, there's unmet potential. So many times I go to create a shortcut, "surely they have an action for $FOO, it would be one of the first things I'd implement", and...no. But it's getting there. Maybe not this year, but I hold hope that Apple will keep at it and in the next year or two this feature will start to open up.
As you point out, there's unmet potential. So many times I go to create a shortcut, "surely they have an action for $FOO, it would be one of the first things I'd implement", and...no. But it's getting there. Maybe not this year, but I hold hope that Apple will keep at it and in the next year or two this feature will start to open up.